Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-19
To the list of dead must undoubtedly !
be added the name of
MARK OSBORNE, day clerk.

|
MARK OSBORNE, day clerk.
/ Mr.. Whitaker reports that q large
amount of diamonds was in the hotel last
night. B. T. Robinson OF Lambert & Co
had stock valued at $50 900 deposited
IN the safe. Mr.. Adler had in his room
| $50 900 worth, and Mr. Smith had anoth-
er considerable stock, but the amount is
not known.
| The hotel building aud the ST. James
! Hall were insured for $50 coo, which Gov
! ers the loss 10 the Library Association.
! Stafford & Co.'s loss IS So, 900, and
| their insurance S34, 800.
Fuller & Townsend, pro )rietOTs of the
| Boston Clothing Store, estimate their
! loss st $50 600; covered by Insurance.
Peter Paul & Bros loss $50, 600; in
sured
The loss Of UlbTech & Kingsley IS S35, =
| 600; covered by insurance.
The miner losses are estimated at
| $4,000.
| Chief Harning of the fire department
says: THE num0er Of people rescued by
the ticemeni is about twenty or twenty-five
| We did all we could 10 rescue them. We
got two streams into the corridor Of the
hotel, and at that moment tie flames were
shooting up that big staircase and the
elevator way beyond the reach OF the
/ hose. We tried to play both streams up
ward on the fire, but there was so much
screaming Of the guests and calls for
help from the windows that we
called of most Of the men from the hose
and 1T the building 60 fol 8 while, giving
all our attention 70 the ladders
DAMN THE BUILDING
/ | Yelled, save the people, and the boys
helped man toe ladders on the outside,
putting up two on the Main street side
and short ones on Eagle street. There
was need fer them, too 1t was 8 horrible
sight 10 see the people jumping from
every side. The cOOI-headed ones were
rescued oil right, but some would not
wait"
HENRY z. RUMsEY was on the top
story. He ran down one flight Of stairs
and started for rear winiow. Seeing g
little girl in the hallway he re-
turned, got her and jumped with
her in his arms on to Bunne's
Museum. The skin and beard on his
face were burned off and he was severely
burned about the body. He viii pro5a-
bly, die.
GEORGE MICHAELs. s commercial
traveller, had q thrilling escape He
tried To get out by climbing
hand over hand along an
electric Iight cable TO the roof of the mu-
scum. Three others got on the wire and
it broke down. Michaels fell about thirty
five feet, but broke no bones.
J. c. GILBERT Of New York is terribly
burned.
W. s. DEwEY of Rochester is badly
sCOrcheG about the face.
+. w. WOODS Of Chicago made rome
Of sheets and slid down in safety, o8caD-
ing with g few bljSters 4 number Of
others who were Injured are 81 various
places, ard their names have not yet been
learned. Among the brave deeds OF the
tiremen was che deserving Of special men
ton. District Engineer Edward Muir
ply was on 8 ladder rescuing some
OF the occupants Of the hotel
At an upper story window was one of the
female dCmeetics. He shouted 20 her to
remain where she was and ne would
come up and saye her. She, poor Crea-
ture, frantic with terror, instead OF obey
ing leaped from the window and literally
threw herself st Murphy This caused
him to lose his balance on the ladder, but
he hung on with one hand and caught the
girl around the neck, holding her thus
firmly until be could regain his equilt-
brlum, when he slid down the ladder,
bearing her safely to the ground.
No further bodies have been found st
last account, and no other persons are
reported missing. 1t is now hoped
that the loss Of life is not
as crest as at first supposed.
The body Of the woman recovered this
morning wa identified as that of Kate
VOL! of Lockport. The report that from
fifteen to forty lives we're lost Is entirely
false. The number will not exceed that
reported above.